Rachel Harding’s Corian chair is inflated “like a balloon“

London designer Rachel Harding has created a balloon-like chair by inflating Corian, a solid surface material more commonly used for kitchen or bathroom countertops. Invented by American chemical company DuPont in 1967, Corian is a very hard, non-porous and stain-resitant composite material. It is widely used in kitchens, bathrooms and even building facades. “What a lot of people don’t know about Corian is that, because it’s a composite, it’s actually thermoformable,“ Harding explains in the movie, which